This is a book on naming conventions, best coding practices and patterns written by the industry expert Steven Sartain.

This document is a working document - it is not designed to meet the requirement that we have “a” coding standard but instead it is an acknowledgment that we can make our lives much easier in the long term if we all agree to a common set of conventions when writing code.

Inevitably, there are many places in this document where I have simply had to make a choice between two or more equally valid alternatives. I have tried to actually think about the relative merits of each alternative but inevitably some of my personal preferences have come into play.